Stanback on the mend?

I really enjoy the articles from DallasCowboys.com. Often, professional teams just use their sites as ticket-sales and PR tools, but the Cowboys’ site has real writers covering real news.

This is the latest on former Huskies quaterback Isaiah Stanback courtesy of DallasCowboys.com:

Fourth-round pick Isaiah Stanback is tired of missing practice. In fact, working out with his Cowboys teammates would be a first for the former Washington quarterback since being drafted as a receiver in the fourth round (103rd) overall in April.

Since the first off-season mini-camp practice, Stanback’s been rehabbing with team trainers on the sidelines while his fellow rookies work their way into the NFL.

“I want to be out there,” Stanback said. “I’m praying and hoping that I get out there pretty soon so I can take care of business and show this is where I belong.”

Surgery to repair his fractured Lisfranc ended his career at the University of Washington five games into the season last year and continued rehab kept Stanback off the field during off-season workouts. Trainers say the Lisfranc has healed, but that returning to workouts after the lengthy inactivity caused shin splints to creep up in the 22-year-old’s right leg.

Stanback said there isn’t any pain when he cuts, but running straight ahead is still painful. Still, it looks like he could be ready to go by the end of this week.

“We’ve had a couple good days and then I had a day where it wasn’t feeling that great,” Stanback said. “But I’m back on track today so hopefully it will continue to improve. We have a great training staff. They’re going to make sure when they send me out there that I don’t have to come back to them.”